30 April 2016

45th annual inman park festival and tour of homes --- i've
seen a few of these, and had my house on tour way last century when i still had
gaping holes in the walls, although it was restoration of gaping holes and what
not that started the whole thing --- the first, biggest, and greatest of the
city's neighborhood festivals --- and every time i'm over there, i see again
the success of atlanta's historic district zoning in helping preserve what a
few pioneers started in 1971 --- glad i was a part of it for awhile --- yay,
inman park!

27 April 2016

i almost never use starbucks, but i'm very glad this corner is coming back to life --- it's not the krystal starbucks anymore, but an interesting design and nice little entrance terrace that ought to be a homeless magnet

24 April 2016

an excellent interlude at the yellow river with cousin boo seafus --- dog is the perfect traveling companion, except he doesn't talk, although often that is a major plus --- anyway having a humanoid along today was a nice change

and i don't think i've ever seen a chinaberry tree bloom --- messy fruit and leaves, yes, but not the blooming part

19 April 2016

two days maintaining rental property --- not all day, but enough to screw up the rest of the day --- i worked hard to simplify my own housing requirements, only to have circumstances keep me entangled in others

but i got to spend quality time this afternoon with someone i've known since grammar school, for the first time in a very long time

17 April 2016

the first streets-alive event of 2016 was excellent --- we rode out to west lake station then managed to get through one of the most pedestrian-unfriendly intersections in the city (i-20, mlk jr dr, and abernathy blvd) and then six miles down abernathy, through west end and mechanicsville to georgia ave, summerhill and grant park, then back via king memorial station --- absolutely perfect weather for the excursion

a part of town i've driven countless times, but a much better view on foot

thanks for the company cousins robert and susan

i gave the fitbit a good workout today --- i'm working myself up to some real long-distance walking

16 April 2016

everybody was all wore out from over stimulation on saturday night, during which we confirmed that dex and small children are not compatible --- otherwise it was a fine, unphotographed evening with my brother and his spawn --- first time to see them all together in two or three years

15 April 2016

cleaning house, getting ready for a [mostly republican] family visit to the thirteenth floor this evening --- greek food from cafe agora, cake from sweet nut, and wine from somewheres --- oh, and i washed the dog yesterday

12 April 2016

broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime― mark twain

truly, what of good

ever have prophets brought to men?

craft of many words,

only through

evil your message speaks.

seers bring aye

terror, so to keep

men afraid.

―

aeschylus

he cannot be a gentleman which loveth not a dog.

john northbrooke, c. 1570

Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in Crete four thousand years ago the love that ended yesterday in Texas.

The seed of our destruction will blossom in the desert, the alexin of our cure grows by a mountain rock, and our lives are haunted by a Georgia slattern, because a London cutpurse went unhung. Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years. The minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death, and every moment is a window on all time.

I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it.

john stuart mill in a letter to conservative mp sir john pakington (march 1866)